Letter: Global warming fears are exaggerated

Editor: A Washington Post editorial reprinted by the St. Augustine Record on March 17 forecasts, “Earth’s average temperature in 2100 will surpass…” the highest prior earth temperatures. It blames “…the industrial revolution, when humans began burning fossil fuels in earnest….”

For 17 years the global average surface temperature has not increased. A 2009 “Climategate” email by Kevin Trenberth, a prominent climate alarm scientist, states: “There has been no global warming for a decade. We cannot explain why. It is a travesty that we can’t.”

For mainland U.S., many recall NOAA publicized that July 2012 was the hottest month since 1895: 77.6°F. NOAA since admitted data errors and made revisions (see updates on NCDC website, a division of NOAA). Data cleaned of city heat island effect shows average temperature almost 2°F lower.

That humans “burning fossil fuels in earnest” causes spurts of global warming is unproven. The three most recent 10-year or longer periods with fastest warming rates were 1860-1880, 1910-1940, and 1976-2001. Only the last period can rationally be blamed on humans burning fossil fuels.

The 1998 spike in global warming caused by the Great el Niño was not enough to balance the above cooling influences. Some scientists say reduced solar activity might bring a little ice age.

Global warming profiteers, those with business and/or employment situations benefiting from exaggerated global warming fear, must be embarrassed, searching for words explaining the short term failure of the planet to warm in lockstep with their theoretical computer models.

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The earth takes care of itself. Does what it wants.
Cares not one iota what we think, do, or say.
We have deceivers and manipulators amongst us who have a vision for you and I that is outright malevolent, fraudulent, even evil.
This whole concept is so patently false that one must be utterly devoid of independent thought processes to buy into it and swallow it.
Sorry but I don't and haven't.
One day, all who have, will wake up, to the fact that they were deceived by it and be totally embarrassed to even admit that they could have fell for such tripe.
I just hope that it's not because they/we are in chains, or worse.

Whew, thanks Peter! It's a good thing you had you to compile and analyze the last 17 years of data and take some private emails out of context. You have completely disproved the vast majority of climate researchers worldwide. Excellent!

"But Trenberth, who acknowledged the e-mail is genuine, says bloggers are missing the point he’s making in the e-mail by not reading the article cited in it. That article "An Imperative for Climate Change Planning" actually says that global warming is continuing, despite random temperature variations that would seem to suggest otherwise.

“It says we don’t have an observing system adequate to track it, but there are all other kinds of signs aside from global mean temperatures — including melting of Arctic sea ice and rising sea levels and a lot of other indicators — that global warming is continuing,” he says.